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Re: Multi Line BBS

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:33
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In article <1992Dec20.152822.29515@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>
>>    * If you fill up the disk and the NeXT runs out of swap it crashes
>>	hard.
>>    * No resource limits (NeXT ignores everything but the stack size limit)
>>    * No process/thread limits
>	  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
>
>	Surely you jest.  Surely, certainly, the OS of the future is
>	not so threadbare that it lacks features that most versions
>	of UNIX have these days..?

    What I mean to say is that the NeXT will gladly allow you to fork
    processes and threads until it runs out of table space or memory, then
    it crashes.

					-Matt

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From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
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Subject: Re:   Multi Line BBS
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